[HN Gopher] BBC World Service Announces Emergency Radio Service ...
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       BBC World Service Announces Emergency Radio Service for Gaza
        
       Author : divbzero
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2023-11-03 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | rasz wrote:
       | >advice on where to access shelter, food and water supplies
       | 
       | so a looped recording of "get up, grab your kids and walk south
       | NOW"
        
         | wannacboatmovie wrote:
         | "Mine is the last voice you will ever hear, don't be alarmed."
        
         | capableweb wrote:
         | Where in the south though? There is artillery/bombings/violence
         | in the south as well, so still important to get information
         | about where to find resources when you're on the ground in the
         | south.
        
       | sandworm101 wrote:
       | Politics aside, this is a good reminder that oldschool radio can
       | still do things modern network-based tech cannot. The ham radio
       | nerds prep for exactly this sort of situation. Blocking the local
       | internet is easy. Such networks can be turned off as easily as a
       | lightswitch. Widespread blocking of radio requires a totally
       | different magnitude of effort.
        
         | krisoft wrote:
         | > Widespread blocking of radio requires a totally different
         | magnitude of effort.
         | 
         | Like bombing every location someone transmits from? It sounds
         | like they very much have the means to do it if they want to.
        
           | LordShredda wrote:
           | I was going to say that targeting civilians is a war crime no
           | matter who does it, but that doesn't seem to be an issue
        
           | objclxt wrote:
           | > Like bombing every location someone transmits from?
           | 
           | This is a Medium Wave service, it doesn't work that way. The
           | signals are reflected by the ionosphere, you can broadcast
           | from thousands of miles away.
           | 
           | Nobody is going to be bombing Cyprus, where the BBC transmit
           | from. The best you could do is jam the signal, but that's
           | cat-and-mouse at best.
        
           | vr46 wrote:
           | I'm sure a lot of people would love to bomb the BBC out of
           | existence but that might be hard.
        
       | namegulf wrote:
       | Hope musk enables starlink for everyone there, right now limited
       | to NGO's
        
         | lgeorget wrote:
         | Who's got a receiver apart from NGOs there? It's not like they
         | can make them enter the Gaza strip right now.
        
       | exitb wrote:
       | Why no frequency in the announcement?
        
         | allanrbo wrote:
         | The page says "The Gaza service will be broadcast on MW 639kHz
         | for morning and evening episodes." So I think this is within
         | the normal AM broadcast band that most car radios can receive.
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | There's a song out there that uses a remix of a woman saying
       | "This is London calling". I only made a connection that it was
       | the BBC's announcement (why they're "calling" when they're
       | broadcasting, I don't know yet):
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJ5_j4U6HQ
        
         | true_religion wrote:
         | They mean calling as in "calling out from afar", not calling in
         | the way of two way contact like on a phone.
        
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